Unlike other types of crime, the majority of cybercrime incidents in Uganda and the East African Community go unreported, primarily due to the affected entities’ efforts to protect their reputations. Often, victims are financial institutions entrusted with safeguarding customer deposits. …
Kampala, June 2025. A senior finance officer at a regional bank receives a Zoom call from her Group CFO. The CFO is in Nairobi, but his face is on screen. His voice is unmistakable. He urgently instructs a confidential payment …
The popular saying goes: “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” And when it comes to risk, culture doesn’t just eat your strategy, it leaks your passwords, signs off bogus deals, and buries red flags under a carpet of silence. So how …
There’s no patch for human error. You can spend billions on the latest firewall, deploy AI-powered threat detection, and encrypt every byte of data in your system, but if your staff clicks on the wrong link, it all crumbles like …
The increasing number and sophisticated nature of cyber-crimes prevailing in industries worldwide. As governing bodies are stepping up to help organizations mitigate the prevailing attack techniques, it is to this day evident that no particular enterprise can be 100% immune …
According to Gartner’s report on ‘Innovation Insight for Attack Surface Management (ASM)’, which covers the growing need faced by security teams to manage an expanding attack surface. Gartner addresses the ‘Top Trends in Cybersecurity 2022’ where it reports that security …
Dear Assurance Manager, Let me pull back the curtain on a real case. A financial institution processed over 300 mobile money withdrawals from dormant accounts within 48 hours. Each withdrawal was small enough to fly under the manual threshold radar. …
The coffee shop sting that cost a CEO his secrets It happened on a rainy Thursday morning in Kampala. Mr. K, a prominent CEO of a local fintech startup, had stepped into a sleek café in Kololo, waiting for his …
“It wasn’t me.” That was the first thing Joseph, the internal auditor of a mid-sized Ugandan bank, blurted out when we summoned him for a forensic interview. We had been called in by the Board after UGX 5.8 billion vanished …
It started with a link. One click. That’s all it took. On a cool Friday morning in April 2025, a procurement officer at a leading Ugandan NGO, let’s call her Susan, received a WhatsApp message from an unknown number. The …
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